How some “academics” try to silence AGW skeptics, ctd

Bishop Hill, who has been working overtime to keep apace with the whole University of East Anglia climate change kerfuffle, has this remarkable example of how some journalists have been threatened by AGW alarmists. How lovely.

By the way, as a native of East Anglia, I feel ashamed of how my region has been tainted by these arseholes. When the UEA was originally built back in the 1960s, it was constructed, much to my father’s chagrin, on a golf course. Given the collapse in that institution’s reputation as a result of the emails, perhaps it should revert to golf and do less harm to what remains of the UK’s intellectual life.

“By the way, as a native of East Anglia, I feel ashamed of how my region has been tainted by these arseholes.”

Eh? That hadn’t even occurred to me, and your mention of it strikes me like a little tornado of weird – why would anyone take a generalized dislike to Ipswich, Norwich and the Fens because of Climategate? Have you been sipping your French plonk again?!

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